Sourdoughs, Claim Jumpers & Dry Gulchers - Fifty of the Grittiest Moments in the History of Frontier Prospecting

Informationen zum Autor By Matthew P. Mayo Klappentext Sourdoughs, Claim Jumpers & Dry Gulchers: Fifty of the Grittiest Moments in the History of Frontier Prospecting, offers 50 tales of hard-bitten sourdoughs, petty bandits, outright outlaws, guilt-free gunmen, and murderous money-grubbers as they scrabbled to gain the lands, foodstuffs, and fortunes of wide-eyed greenhorns, gullible and trusting tenderfoots, and slow-on-the-draw gold panners. Zusammenfassung Sourdoughs! Claim Jumpers & Dry Gulchers: Fifty of the Grittiest Moments in the History of Frontier Prospecting! offers 50 tales of hard-bitten sourdoughs! petty bandits! outright outlaws! guilt-free gunmen! and murderous money-grubbers as they scrabbled to gain the lands! foodstuffs! and fortunes of wide-eyed greenhorns! gullible and trusting tenderfoots! and slow-on-the-draw gold panners.

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Mayo, Matthew P. Mayo, Mayo Matthew P.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.06.2012
• EAN: 9780762770649
• ISBN: 978-0-7627-7064-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; History, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, History of the Americas